Monday, December 17, 2012

INVADERS FROM SPACE / Walter Manley Enterprises - 1965

It's... Monster Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Eegah!! gave us frog faces last post, so, I'm bringing in the salamander men from the planet Kulimon as a follow up, and, Starman is back!..

We have a soundclip that gives the story set-up with a wild musical performance by an unusual dance troupe, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button there next to the glowing atomic powered coffee grinder, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... INVADERS FROM SPACE!

Like I said, Starman. Here he is on the Emerald Planet getting his orders to save the Earth from a horde of Salamander Men that plan on taking over by unleashing a lethal plague on mankind.

The Salamander Men are a mysterious lot, when they remove their mask you see why they wear the damn thing in the first place!!

After Starman arrives on Earth, he's singled out for attack by Kulimon salamander fighting fiends! Starman has little concern and kicks the thing's ass post-haste!

You hear some of this bizarre dance number in the soundclip... Packed audience!

Kids are part of the mix this time, they're targeted by the Salamander Men while out catching butterflies. Of course, there's another freakin' dance number!

Head scientists are captured and coerced into helping by threatening to dump a kid into a huge volcanic cauldron!

Shades of the TWILIGHT ZONE episode "Eye Of The Beholder!"

More action with kids, this time at home, the mean old Kulimon witch gets melted!

A shot of their flying saucer firing on the city below!

Looks like Starman is mocking them with his insulting salamander walk!

DWRAYGER DUNGEON PRESENTS: The Monster Movie Music Manifesto

Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Spy, Super-Hero, JD, Thriller and Noir films, that's what we like, and a recurring theme in a lot of those kinds of movies has always been music! There were rockin' clubs and cafes with cool jukeboxes, teen poolside parties with local bands, sometimes it was a seedy bar with a sleazy torch singer, a beatnik coffeehouse, maybe dancing somewhere in outer space, or some weird tribal ceremony on a cool secluded island with giant monsters running around, and you could count on it that a lot of the time there was smoking and drinking going on. It was a fun time!! A lot of movies also had quirky, swingin', jazzy or rockin' themes or credits, or maybe just some wild Psychotronic elements! We started with the music from 50's & 60's Monster Movies, but we later morphed into the new, bigger and better, Rock and Soul, 70's brevity, 80's maybes, 1940's Gorilla and Bela site from Hell! So, sit down, and take a load off, pour yourself a cool one, and order up something hot and greasy, because we have a lot of tasty tidbits on the menu, way outside the realm of good taste! If any of the postings just happen to step on anybody's toes, let us know & we will remove them immediately, if not sooner!! We recognize all formal copyrights, and do this solely to support and promote the films featured! This forum is only being presented in a critical and scholarly critique, and should not be construed as anything else. It's just all for Fun & Historical Education in an effort to keep bad taste alive forever!!! If the words and pictures pique your interest, then please go out & buy, or rent the movies, wherever you can find them! All soundclips are approximately two minutes long, just enough to give you a feel for the movie! When we post a sound clip, it will only stay up 30 days or less!

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